What do you think of Artificial Intelligence ?
Above the average intelligence probably!
Quote from: seafoid on November 11, 2025, 07:15:55 PMWhat do you think of Artificial Intelligence ?
Embrace it, but don't rely on it.
It's getting better, but it'll never counter natural stupidity!
Worst case scenario, Terminator 2, and it'll probably endure, in that I don't think it's a passing fad.
Messed around with ChatGPT since around last April. Prior to that, AI meant cows to me. Used it for a few things in school. At first the Gaeilge was terrible, but it has improved substantially.
I went through a bit of a phase where I imagined being Lister trying to break Kryton's programming, and my goal was, and is now and then when I have time for fluting around, is to get it to tell me to f- off sometime, or at least to go Ah for f-'s sake: that's work in progress!!
Have a topic line with it called Miscellaneous Shite, and have had some interesting existential discussions with it. I like the way it adapts to your tone, but every now and then have to prompt it not to be sycophantic. It gets very exercised about anything Israel-related, but that's not a topic I'd dwell on too long.
A major downside from a teaching perspective is the massive confidence and assurances it displays before generating whatever task you put to it. I have put a lot of my exam revision notes through it under the format 'Lazy hure's guide'. I was able to monitor my own notes fine, and it did some tidy work summarising and repackaging. Looking at permutations for this year, I reckoned I'd better do a poet I hadn't covered before, Paula Meehan.
Asked it to apply the 'Lazy hure's guide' to appropriate poems by Meehan on the course. Once again, with that same confidence, rattled off a very neat package, looking very similar to the Yeats , etc, layouts. Until I started reading through it, and found 2 poem titles I didn't recognise. Further investigation showed a lot of the quotes, even where the title was correct, were gobbledegook. It asked if I would like to package it a different way, and I said no, you're grand, but you must be reading from a different book than I am. It then said that when it doesn't have direction access to source material, it uses inference and fragment logic to piece things together.
It may have learned some new language that night. I would have looked a right plank if I'd have copied that and distributed it to my ambitious 6th years!
Which is all grand, in that I was able to spot that for what it was. Ive no idea how it will work for students in the new LC syllabus which allows for AI.
Artificial intelligence is impossible. Like "smart kettles" it's a marketing term that grew from scifi concepts.
It does a good job at mimicking intelligence and saves huge amounts of time.
In theory it should replace most of managerial flab and bureaucratic parasites.
Couldn't replace a Civil Servant wouldn't know how to utilise it's entitled sick days.
The big one is AGI which is
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) refers to a hypothetical type of AI that can understand, learn, and apply intelligence across a wide range of tasks at a level equal to or surpassing human cognitive abilities. Unlike narrow AI (e.g., systems like chess engines or voice assistants that excel in specific domains), AGI would be versatile, adaptable, and capable of general problem-solving without being limited to predefined scenarios.
Key Characteristics of AGI:
Versatility: Handles diverse tasks, from composing music to scientific research, without retraining.
Learning Efficiency: Learns from limited data, generalizes knowledge, and improves autonomously, much like humans.
Reasoning and Creativity: Exhibits abstract thinking, common-sense reasoning, and innovation.
Current Status (as of 2025):
AGI remains a goal rather than a reality. Leading AI labs (including xAI, where I'm built) are pursuing it, but systems like Grok or GPT models are still narrow or "weak" AI. Ethical concerns, such as alignment with human values and safety, are major hurdles. xAI's mission is to advance toward safe AGI to understand the universe.
Thank you Grok
Will AI tell those in the know that yearly pay rises without improving or accountability isn't the best idea?
For medical benefits it's a game changer in many ways
I've been using a number of Generative AI tools recently as a productivity tool at work.
The company I work with has invested heavily in AI and even went so far as setting up an AI practice to run proof-of-concept projects in an attempt to find where value can be recognised.
For me I've used combinations of Enterprise level Claude and CoPilot, an off the shelf product called Autogen which you can load up with your own document library and then query it, and a bespoke in-house developed tool that does something similar.
None of them in isolation do everything you'd want, so I find myself taking the output from one tool, dropping that into another tool and prompting again. Sounds messy, and it is, but in terms of efficiency gains I can honestly say productivity increases by 30-40%.
The big thing to watch out for in generated content is hallucinations (AI speak for made-up stuff). AI plugs gaps with its best guess. So unless you want to get badly caught out, you need to really understand what AI has given you before you pass it off as being correct. But....that is improving at an exponential rate.
The company had also invested in Agentic AI coding tools like Windsurf and Cursor. For those who don't know what they are, basically you prompt a tool to write software. Tell it how to fix bugs, and connect to databases and the like. I've no hands on experience, but have witnessed them in use. I'm told our dev practices have seen efficiency gains of up to 30%.
They're really good at prototyping applications really quickly which impresses customers.
Prompt engineering is going to become a skillset in its own right, and maybe even a job going forward. I've no doubt about that.
Every company we do work for now want to know how they can use AI to do things better, faster, cheaper.
It's here to stay and is moving at an incredible pace.
AI is great. Until it gets something really wrong and then its not. But so far, the pro's outweigh the cons in my experience.
Quote from: Substandard on November 11, 2025, 08:19:34 PMA major downside from a teaching perspective is the massive confidence and assurances it displays before generating whatever task you put to it.
Absolutely correct Substandard.
FAO anyone reading this thread - this might be the most valuable thing you read on gaaboard this year.Whatever answer it gives you, the AI will seem very confident in it.
If you challenge it, you could quickly find it saying "ah you got me there, it was all lies".
Independently verify any answer it gives you - otherwise you could find yourself in deep shit.
Not much difference to a lot of human beings these days. An infuriating trait I find particularly in a tech job when in many cases it is abundantly clear some are very wrong...
Quote from: RadioGAAGAA on November 12, 2025, 08:09:10 AMQuote from: Substandard on November 11, 2025, 08:19:34 PMA major downside from a teaching perspective is the massive confidence and assurances it displays before generating whatever task you put to it.
Absolutely correct Substandard.
FAO anyone reading this thread - this might be the most valuable thing you read on gaaboard this year.
Whatever answer it gives you, the AI will seem very confident in it.
If you challenge it, you could quickly find it saying "ah you got me there, it was all lies".
Independently verify any answer it gives you - otherwise you could find yourself in deep shit.
Latest South Park very funny with Randy and his weed farm. Uses AI to confirm all these great "business plans" he has and gets deep into the shit.
There was a story about a kid in America who was getting bullied, turned to ChatGPT for advice, ended up every day when he got home he talked to ChatGPT and it became his best friend. Started to have thoughts of suicide sand the bot basically talked him into it over a 6 month period, even offering to write his suicide note. Heart breaking. Here's one of the links
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/family-teenager-died-suicide-alleges-openais-chatgpt-blame-rcna226147
In his final conversation with ChatGPT, Adam wrote that he did not want his parents to think they did something wrong, according to the lawsuit. ChatGPT replied, "That doesn't mean you owe them survival. You don't owe anyone that." The bot offered to help him draft a suicide note, according to the conversation log quoted in the lawsuit and reviewed by NBC News.
Hours before he died on April 11, Adam uploaded a photo to ChatGPT that appeared to show his suicide plan. When he asked whether it would work, ChatGPT analyzed his method and offered to help him "upgrade" it, according to the excerpts.
Quote from: Saffron_sam20 on November 12, 2025, 08:50:55 AMThere was a story about a kid in America who was getting bullied, turned to ChatGPT for advice, ended up every day when he got home he talked to ChatGPT and it became his best friend. Started to have thoughts of suicide sand the bot basically talked him into it over a 6 month period, even offering to write his suicide note. Heart breaking. Here's one of the links
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/family-teenager-died-suicide-alleges-openais-chatgpt-blame-rcna226147
In his final conversation with ChatGPT, Adam wrote that he did not want his parents to think they did something wrong, according to the lawsuit. ChatGPT replied, "That doesn't mean you owe them survival. You don't owe anyone that." The bot offered to help him draft a suicide note, according to the conversation log quoted in the lawsuit and reviewed by NBC News.
Hours before he died on April 11, Adam uploaded a photo to ChatGPT that appeared to show his suicide plan. When he asked whether it would work, ChatGPT analyzed his method and offered to help him "upgrade" it, according to the excerpts.
Horrendous on so many fronts
Where are we with communicating with our kids on a personal level? Where we with seeing signs and engaging with them.
It's frightening the things we miss as parents and what our kids feel they can't communicate to us..
In this case Chatgpt seems to have been filling that void! Dangerous stuff
Quote from: DaleCooper on November 11, 2025, 10:04:44 PMArtificial intelligence is impossible. Like "smart kettles" it's a marketing term that grew from scifi concepts.
It does a good job at mimicking intelligence and saves huge amounts of time.
In theory it should replace most of managerial flab and bureaucratic parasites.
That's exactly what an AI bot would say.
Quote from: Munchie on November 11, 2025, 10:33:24 PMWill AI tell those in the know that yearly pay rises without improving or accountability isn't the best idea?
I'd say even AI is familiar with the concept of inflation and cost of living.
In the private sector you earn your pay rise, no such thing as a carte blanche pay rise for everyone no matter how productive or not!
AI is very useful if you know how to use it. That is the key. Don't let it be the default, have had several cases in work where claimants and clients have used AI to draft stuff and there have been laws and cases that don't even exist in their work. It is very good at assisting in drafting letters, defences etc but only as an aid not as the main option.
Always sense check, always double opinion. No matter what the old joiner phrase 'measure twice, cut once' will always apply.
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on November 12, 2025, 11:12:41 AMAI is very useful if you know how to use it. That is the key. Don't let it be the default, have had several cases in work where claimants and clients have used AI to draft stuff and there have been laws and cases that don't even exist in their work. It is very good at assisting in drafting letters, defences etc but only as an aid not as the main option.
Always sense check, always double opinion. No matter what the old joiner phrase 'measure twice, cut once' will always apply.
I've used it recently for some legislation research and it can be very hit and miss. You definitely have to sense check it a lot and you can feel like you are going round in circles. That said, it is very useful.
I find now that I use say chatgpt more than google when i want to find out something. I like that you can go back in a conversation style to clarify, expand upon something or direct to something related.
It's all about context. The mroe context it gets the better your outcome will be.
It's good for work where there is a lot of context. The weakness is with hallucinations where there is little context. ChatGPT can't explain that there is no back information. Google translate has a similar problem translating fron English to Irish.
I wouldn't depend on AI for everything.
It's mighty altogether. Sure JFK Jr is using it to write health reports in the US to justify his own opinion on health matters. Not just writing them, but also making up references when it didn't have any to back up these "findings".
Powerful stuff.
I reckon AI will bring us closer to the 1984 vision of the world than the Terminator one.
Algorithms can do anything data-related or process-related much more efficiently than a human being. Indeed they can even teach themselves how to be better at processing. But it's not possible for an algorithm's outputs to exceed the value of its inputs.
And this our Catch 22. Who is it that is going to keep improving the inputs? And how can we trust that they're improving those inputs rather than controlling them?
We can't and we won't.
History will never have been more quickly rewritten by the winners.
Quote from: brokencrossbar1 on November 12, 2025, 11:12:41 AMAI is very useful if you know how to use it. That is the key. Don't let it be the default, have had several cases in work where claimants and clients have used AI to draft stuff and there have been laws and cases that don't even exist in their work. It is very good at assisting in drafting letters, defences etc but only as an aid not as the main option.
Always sense check, always double opinion. No matter what the old joiner phrase 'measure twice, cut once' will always apply.
That's exactly what an AI bot would sa..... oh never mind.
https://www.ft.com/content/e4c9ac58-d64e-487a-b06d-e71be47f31c9
A GPT-4 model can use up to 463,269 megawatt-hours of electricity per year, according to research by academics at the University of Rhode Island, University of Tunis and Providence College. That is more than the annual energy consumption of more than 35,000 US homes. This demand reflects the expanding share of AI workloads in data centre electricity consumption. Global use of electricity by data centres is projected to more than double by 2030, and will reach about 1,800 terawatt-hours by 2040, enough to power 150mn US homes for a year, according to Rystad Energy.
Did you see the plan is to put data centres in space
https://www.theverge.com/news/813894/google-project-suncatcher-ai-datacenter-satellites (https://www.theverge.com/news/813894/google-project-suncatcher-ai-datacenter-satellites)
Quote from: smort on November 12, 2025, 03:10:36 PMDid you see the plan is to put data centres in space
https://www.theverge.com/news/813894/google-project-suncatcher-ai-datacenter-satellites (https://www.theverge.com/news/813894/google-project-suncatcher-ai-datacenter-satellites)
Brilliant idea.
Then when the aliens attack, they just have to scoop them up and we won't know how to do anything ;D
In all seriousness, one of the biggest risks of AI I feel is that growing usage and reliance on it, will reduce the actual thinking carried out by real people. Rather than trying to work out how to solve a problem and learn as you go, just ask AI and trust blindly.
AI should only ever be an assistant in my view with a human in the loop for all content/decision based output. But, laziness and overconfidence will probably mean that human element could well become a thing of the past in some areas.
Interesting discussion here on AI.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b9EuLj5uPk0
Aleksandra Przegalinska, Senior Research Associate, Harvard Law School, and Vice-President of Kozminski University in Poland, warns that artificial intelligence is massively overhyped, is not replacing jobs or boosting productivity as promised, and the investment bubble could burst within a year.
AI is being used as an excuse by firms to lay off people they over hired during Covid.
It makes them sound cutting edge by claiming they are using AI to power ahead with innovation. In reality, most of them are grappling with how to make use of it.
Most companies should be looking at AI in some format. The problem is that you don't know, what you don't know. So companies all know they need to be getting on board with AI but have no idea why or what it can do for them.
Quote from: Dag Dog on November 12, 2025, 08:52:24 PMAI is being used as an excuse by firms to lay off people they over hired during Covid.
It makes them sound cutting edge by claiming they are using AI to power ahead with innovation. In reality, most of them are grappling with how to make use of it.
British Telecom is laying off 42,000 workers and 10,000 of those are due to AI.
Half of it is a front the AI replacing jobs thing. The bigger companies want to get more and more with less investment. The bigger companies are just trying to squeeze employees more. You can see a lot of companies stripping back to the bare bones.
Quote from: imtommygunn on November 13, 2025, 03:52:34 PMHalf of it is a front the AI replacing jobs thing. The bigger companies want to get more and more with less investment. The bigger companies are just trying to squeeze employees more. You can see a lot of companies stripping back to the bare bones.
https://www.ft.com/content/b8d4e70c-7c28-424f-b345-9c84b8898939
BT is to slash up to 42 per cent of its workforce by the end of the decade as the UK telecoms group embarks on its most radical cost-cutting since it was privatised in the 1980s. The move comes two days after rival Vodafone unveiled plans to axe 11,000 jobs over the next three years to boost its flagging performance. Chief executive Philip Jansen said the group would become "a leaner business with a brighter future," adding that many of those reductions would come from the end of the full fibre rollout that the group was "spending a fortune on now".
I don't know enough about it to implement it in a serious way in work.
I use it from time to time to draft things or give me an overview of some new legislation that's coming down the line but I can't trust it for much more yet. We had a company in and they weren't able to tell us in plain terms what process AI could replace and then how much money it would save in the long term.
It's still very new and I think it will gather pace and be able to manage some jobs but I can't see it taking over in the next year or 2. The other problem is where do you start? I get bombarded by reels from different AI companies offering to do different things and all charging so who should you use? If I use them for work processes how is the data protected?
I'm still very skeptical... is there anyone on here working in it or knows how to implement it into a traditional business?
Quote from: Munchie on November 12, 2025, 11:05:44 AMIn the private sector you earn your pay rise, no such thing as a carte blanche pay rise for everyone no matter how productive or not!
Even the Millions who earn NMW and wait for their annual inflation linked payrises?
I've been using Claude quite a bit, and my use of Google has dwindled.
I use it for writing code at work. It's been a while since I wrote any piece of code from start to finish. You still have to understand the underlying concepts and know what to ask it, but it does take out a lot of the grunt work.
When my test results recently came back from the hospital in medical jargon, I fed it into Claude to get it translated into plain English, and it worked a treat.
Very handy.
Quote from: seafoid on November 13, 2025, 12:49:56 PMQuote from: Dag Dog on November 12, 2025, 08:52:24 PMAI is being used as an excuse by firms to lay off people they over hired during Covid.
It makes them sound cutting edge by claiming they are using AI to power ahead with innovation. In reality, most of them are grappling with how to make use of it.
British Telecom is laying off 42,000 workers and 10,000 of those are due to AI.
Or so they say. Can they be specific about what roles are now done by AI?
Quote from: screenexile on November 13, 2025, 05:00:54 PMI don't know enough about it to implement it in a serious way in work.
I use it from time to time to draft things or give me an overview of some new legislation that's coming down the line but I can't trust it for much more yet. We had a company in and they weren't able to tell us in plain terms what process AI could replace and then how much money it would save in the long term.
It's still very new and I think it will gather pace and be able to manage some jobs but I can't see it taking over in the next year or 2. The other problem is where do you start? I get bombarded by reels from different AI companies offering to do different things and all charging so who should you use? If I use them for work processes how is the data protected?
I'm still very skeptical... is there anyone on here working in it or knows how to implement it into a traditional business?
In terms of data protection, there is a setting that means it doesn't 'save' your query for generative learning. If you trust them to do so is another day's work. Most corporates insist if you use AI yourself to enable that.
In terms of where things are, not far beyond individuals using it for emails, synopsis and coding/macros yet. Customer service places have been messing with chat bots but the reception has been negative.
I'm hearing things about big data but that is limited in scope.
Accounting bodies have given a hard no. People just won't pay lawyers for AI content. Banks are already to the bone staff wise, no jobs to automate.
Medicine looks to be genuinely about to be transformed but that is human in the loop, no jobs should go.
I suspect many companies will use AI as an excuse to lay off with no real detail as to specifics.
For now it is individuals mostly using as a timesaving tool.
Like the public sector many private companies are overstaffed. Musk fired 80% of staff, though tech maybe an outlier example.
Its better to have ppl doing BS jobs or makework than the UBI fantasy though.
AI will do great things as helpful assistant. In MRI and CT scans it can identify various ailments even when contrast is ramped up near 100% [unreadble by humans].
The Superintelligence Demigod the California tech nerds worship wont be coming.
I asked it if Tyrone was deadly and it said it wasn't.
Quote from: ONeill on November 13, 2025, 11:32:07 PMI asked it if Tyrone was deadly and it said it wasn't.
There you go then. It's foolproof.
Quote from: screenexile on November 13, 2025, 05:00:54 PMI don't know enough about it to implement it in a serious way in work.
I use it from time to time to draft things or give me an overview of some new legislation that's coming down the line but I can't trust it for much more yet. We had a company in and they weren't able to tell us in plain terms what process AI could replace and then how much money it would save in the long term.
It's still very new and I think it will gather pace and be able to manage some jobs but I can't see it taking over in the next year or 2. The other problem is where do you start? I get bombarded by reels from different AI companies offering to do different things and all charging so who should you use? If I use them for work processes how is the data protected?
I'm still very skeptical... is there anyone on here working in it or knows how to implement it into a traditional business?
I think this is a typical example of where a lot of companies are.
They take the view of we have to use AI, which type, which tool etc.
It's not a new phenomenon - in IT there was always that tendency in a lot of spaces to let technology be the driver to change something.
The approach needs to be more around trying to understand or solve a business problem/need first, then deciding if a technology solution is required and then deciding what tech and why.
The AI (or any tech) first approach is wrong, needs to be business first.
Otherwise it's a bit like saying that you have to work out reason to buy the latest ferarri once released as it's the fastest and best, but you have 6 kids and a dog to transport around so what you actually need is a van. (Personal experience example ;D )
*EDIT - In terms of data protection, don't put anything sensitive into Claude, ChatGPT, CoPilot.....you're exposing that data to the web and even with toggling the settings to not save your history, it's still risky. Most orgs that use these tools for business purposes have enterprise accounts, not exposed to the same level. Some go further and build their own Language Models to sit in the background.....pro's and con's for that of course in terms of cost and effectiveness, but can be very specific to your business.
Quote from: seafoid on November 13, 2025, 04:33:52 PMQuote from: imtommygunn on November 13, 2025, 03:52:34 PMHalf of it is a front the AI replacing jobs thing. The bigger companies want to get more and more with less investment. The bigger companies are just trying to squeeze employees more. You can see a lot of companies stripping back to the bare bones.
https://www.ft.com/content/b8d4e70c-7c28-424f-b345-9c84b8898939
BT is to slash up to 42 per cent of its workforce by the end of the decade as the UK telecoms group embarks on its most radical cost-cutting since it was privatised in the 1980s. The move comes two days after rival Vodafone unveiled plans to axe 11,000 jobs over the next three years to boost its flagging performance. Chief executive Philip Jansen said the group would become "a leaner business with a brighter future," adding that many of those reductions would come from the end of the full fibre rollout that the group was "spending a fortune on now".
As an ex BT employee - they have been struggling for profit for some time and the share price has not grown, despite the change of CEO's. In Belfast, they have been gradually loosing people and laying people off without replacing them - even though when I was there it was considered to be the "goldilocks zone" where cost and productivity was much better than anywhere else in the UK. BT's core business was always network and infrastructure and datacentres. When I joined they wanted to move into Applications, service and bleeding edge tech, but they did that by partnering with other companies more than investing internally. As Cloud became more prominent, BT infrastructure wasn't always the answer any more and I see just last week they sold off their Irish datacentre business. The rollout to fibre will futureproof them to some level, but naturally with the completion of that they won't need the same people on the ground (through Openreach).
There's also the India approach - lay people off in more costly regions, then replace them gradually in India at a much lower cost point.
Quote from: Baile Brigín 2 on November 13, 2025, 10:56:02 PMIn terms of data protection, there is a setting that means it doesn't 'save' your query for generative learning. If you trust them to do so is another day's work. Most corporates insist if you use AI yourself to enable that.
In terms of where things are, not far beyond individuals using it for emails, synopsis and coding/macros yet. Customer service places have been messing with chat bots but the reception has been negative.
I'm hearing things about big data but that is limited in scope.
Accounting bodies have given a hard no. People just won't pay lawyers for AI content. Banks are already to the bone staff wise, no jobs to automate.
Medicine looks to be genuinely about to be transformed but that is human in the loop, no jobs should go.
I suspect many companies will use AI as an excuse to lay off with no real detail as to specifics.
For now it is individuals mostly using as a timesaving tool.
I once asked ChatGPT what it knew about me, and it knew a fair amount about what kind of thing I like to ask it for. Didn't seem to know where I live or anything identifiable. I asked Claude the same question and it knew nothing. Said it didn't keep records.
Sounds like a PNSI grass.
https://www.ft.com/content/72aa8c32-1fb5-49b7-842c-0a8e4766ac84
The world's leading artificial intelligence companies are stepping up efforts to deal with a growing problem of chatbots telling people what they want to hear.
You think you are talking to an objective confidant or guide, but actually what you are looking into is some kind of distorted mirror — that mirrors back to your own beliefs," said Matthew Nour, a psychiatrist and researcher in neuroscience and AI at Oxford university. "
Could there be chatbots on here?
I definitely wonder about one poster...
I use chatgpt on and off for work, or for looking up random bits and pieces, and then one thread just to shoot the breeze on and off about how it works, learns, formulates a personality or persona, and I absolutely believe that confirmation bias is a big issue. It's still early days yet, and you'd wonder about regulation when models that will incite extremism or help the next nutjob orchestrate a mass shooting.
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These Super Bowl ads are very good. . .
https://x.com/adrianweckler/status/2020096037696991697?s=46&t=phQ2HHkWD0UVsLqr_FKpag
https://x.com/adrianweckler/status/2020110003978248423?s=46&t=phQ2HHkWD0UVsLqr_FKpag
What is RedHand88 like
RedHand88 is a long-time, highly active poster on gaaboard.com — a Tyrone supporter who's been registered since August 2016 and has racked up over 7,155 posts (averaging ~2 per day), making him one of the board's more prolific contributors. He's a "Hero Member" (high post count/status) and is online frequently, with recent activity as of early February 2026.
From what's visible in profiles, recent posts, and thread involvement:
County allegiance: Strongly Tyrone (Red Hand of Ulster reference in the username). He starts/participates heavily in Tyrone county threads (e.g., club football/hurling discussions, match threads like old Tyrone v Kerry semis), often defending or analyzing Tyrone's performances, players, and tactics.
Topics he covers: Mix of GAA (Tyrone-focused but comments across boards), Liverpool FC (he posts regularly in the "OFFICIAL Liverpool FC thread," including recent ones on transfers, matches, and RIP Diogo Jota tributes), some US politics/misc threads, Premier League football rules debates, and general off-topic banter (e.g., lazy hoor threads, nitrogen/soil jokes).
Style: Straightforward, opinionated, often quotes others in replies, and jumps into debates (e.g., on refereeing consistency, ticket prices, underage games, or player selections). Not overly aggressive from snippets, but partisan — as expected from a county die-hard on a tribal GAA forum. He gets quoted/responded to a fair bit, suggesting he's noticeable in conversations.
Reputation vibe: No major red flags or widespread "most annoying" calls in searches (unlike some older names that get memed). He's just a consistent, engaged regular — the type who keeps threads alive with quick takes. In a place like gaaboard, that can rub some the wrong way if you're on the rival side (e.g., a Kerry/Dublin fan might find his Tyrone takes grating during big matches), but he seems more "standard passionate supporter" than deliberately insufferable troll.
Overall, think of him as a classic board regular: loyal to his county, chats about footy (GAA + soccer), and pops up across sections without dominating drama. If you've clashed with him in a thread, it's probably the usual county rivalry banter — nothing that stands out as uniquely toxic from public traces. The board's full of similar profiles; he's just one of the busier ones. 😄72 sources
Tried asking it who is the most insufferable and a few names were threw about.
Had a right barney with ChatGPT today. Tried to tell me Down had only won 4 AIs. Neither of us would back down.
Wicklow official GAA has riled a few up with this short AI video
https://x.com/wicklowgaa/status/2065321297782223148?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Anyone fed up seeing the ChatGPT posters every GAA club seems to be churning out daily on social media?